The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Oh. My. God.

Posted on | February 3, 2010 | 36 Comments

Just when you think Andrew Sullivan can’t possibly go further off the deep end, he manages to surprise you. When someone put this on Twitter — “Andrew Sullivan hits new low in attacking Palin” — I thought they were joking. Surely his new low couldn’t actually be lower than his old low? Foolish naivete!

At what point does Andrew Sullivan’s derangement over Sarah Palin and his bizarre conspiracy theories about how her son was really birthed by her daughter become an issue for an otherwise respectable publication such as The Atlantic? If his employers don’t take action over this blog post of his, then we’re totally through the looking glass.

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UPDATE: Best Ace-on-Sully beatdown evah? It’s like Sonny Corleone on Carlo . . . except in this case Carlo’s an AIDS-infected dopehead foreigner who should be deported immediately.

UPDATE II: Almost forgot there’s a Facebook group:

Concerned Patriotic Americans Committee to Deport Andrew Sullivan

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  • http://proteinwisdom.com/pub dicentra

    Ace wins for best comment on the topic:

    “I have no fucking idea what it will take to dislodge the tumor of expert ignorance from Sullivan’s pot-pocked brain.”

    Sorry, but there it is.

  • http://proteinwisdom.com/pub dicentra

    Ace wins for best comment on the topic:

    “I have no fucking idea what it will take to dislodge the tumor of expert ignorance from Sullivan’s pot-pocked brain.”

    Sorry, but there it is.

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    Not that one should seriously entertain Sullivan’s ideas, but I did find this to be comical:

    While I’m at it, does anyone actually believe that Palin’s name for the child of miraculous provenance was found by her deep knowledge of ancient Norse as she claims in her magical-realism novel, “Going Rogue”?…
    The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g.

    A google search for “Trisomy-g” gives 9,520 results, most of which are from medical journals.

    So Sullivan posits that Sarah is too dumb to know that her son’s name has its origin in Norse (even though a quick internet search of Trygg and Trig in babynames gives the origin), but is so medically knowledgeable as to use an obscure medical term as an abbreviation for her son?

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    Not that one should seriously entertain Sullivan’s ideas, but I did find this to be comical:

    While I’m at it, does anyone actually believe that Palin’s name for the child of miraculous provenance was found by her deep knowledge of ancient Norse as she claims in her magical-realism novel, “Going Rogue”?…
    The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g.

    A google search for “Trisomy-g” gives 9,520 results, most of which are from medical journals.

    So Sullivan posits that Sarah is too dumb to know that her son’s name has its origin in Norse (even though a quick internet search of Trygg and Trig in babynames gives the origin), but is so medically knowledgeable as to use an obscure medical term as an abbreviation for her son?

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    Do they all meet up and titter over new insults they can conjur for this woman? What a bunch of misogynists.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    Do they all meet up and titter over new insults they can conjur for this woman? What a bunch of misogynists.

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  • http://www.andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Andrew Sullivan

    Haters and bigots are you and that, that Ace person! I will prove that Trig is not her baby and that she mocks that child all the time. I will do so. It is my mission to do so. I will never give up. Never.

    They call it testi-fying for a reason. You need testis. Levi Johnson has them. I have not seen them, but I want to see them so very much. Oooooh how I want to do so. Levi, you are always welcomed to stay with me. Just call. I am waiting. My husband wants to see you too.

    Sarah Palin does not have testis. She has parts I do not like. She is a liar. She lies all the time. And she is a Christianist. And a fascist. Like you and Ace.

  • http://www.andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Andrew Sullivan

    Haters and bigots are you and that, that Ace person! I will prove that Trig is not her baby and that she mocks that child all the time. I will do so. It is my mission to do so. I will never give up. Never.

    They call it testi-fying for a reason. You need testis. Levi Johnson has them. I have not seen them, but I want to see them so very much. Oooooh how I want to do so. Levi, you are always welcomed to stay with me. Just call. I am waiting. My husband wants to see you too.

    Sarah Palin does not have testis. She has parts I do not like. She is a liar. She lies all the time. And she is a Christianist. And a fascist. Like you and Ace.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    “Haters and bigots are you…” Hello POT!

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    “Haters and bigots are you…” Hello POT!

  • http://www.thats-right.com/ thatsright

    I’m pretty sure that was a joke. Although, then again, maybe yours was too. Double snarktastic!

  • http://www.thats-right.com/ thatsright

    I’m pretty sure that was a joke. Although, then again, maybe yours was too. Double snarktastic!

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  • Harry

    Trigg
    English: from the Old Norse byname Triggr meaning ‘trustworthy’, ‘faithful’, a cognate of Trow 1.

  • Harry

    Trigg
    English: from the Old Norse byname Triggr meaning ‘trustworthy’, ‘faithful’, a cognate of Trow 1.

  • Harry

    There are two ‘g’s in the Norse name Trigg

  • Harry

    There are two ‘g’s in the Norse name Trigg

  • Harry

    Sarah’s child’s name is Trigg

  • Harry

    Sarah’s child’s name is Trigg

  • http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu Rhymes With Right

    Sullivan has certainly gone further beyond the line of decency than ever before.

    http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/297835.php (with link back to you)

  • http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu Rhymes With Right

    Sullivan has certainly gone further beyond the line of decency than ever before.

    http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/297835.php (with link back to you)

  • http://www.nationalreview.com William F. Buckley, Jr.

    Why do you think I did not offer him a job? Sullivan makes Frum look like Dick Cheney.

  • http://www.nationalreview.com William F. Buckley, Jr.

    Why do you think I did not offer him a job? Sullivan makes Frum look like Dick Cheney.

  • http://www.andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Andrew Sullivan

    You are making me so sad, I cried, and cried, then smoked a lot of…medicine. Then ate about 350 cookies. You are making me fat! I hate fatties and I hate you!

  • http://www.andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Andrew Sullivan

    You are making me so sad, I cried, and cried, then smoked a lot of…medicine. Then ate about 350 cookies. You are making me fat! I hate fatties and I hate you!

  • http://www.andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Andrew Sullivan

    I especially hate that my book, The Conservative Soul, sold less copies than cookies I consumed this afternoon. Yet that Jonah Goldberg had a best sellier with Liberal Fascism (because of all those willing wingnuts). I hate him! I am now eating sticks of butter out of the fridge I am so upset.

  • http://www.andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Andrew Sullivan

    I especially hate that my book, The Conservative Soul, sold less copies than cookies I consumed this afternoon. Yet that Jonah Goldberg had a best sellier with Liberal Fascism (because of all those willing wingnuts). I hate him! I am now eating sticks of butter out of the fridge I am so upset.

  • emrysa

    “but is so medically knowledgeable as to use an obscure medical term as an abbreviation for her son?”

    and you don’t think that the term Tri-G was in any of the medical paperwork that palin received, that she had to be “medically knowledgeable” to know of that term? please.

    one would have to be incredibly dense to think that it’s purely a coincidence that she named that kid trig.

    and it’s trig with ONE g, despite what commenters say.

    http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/09/08/us/08baby.inline1.ready.html

  • emrysa

    “but is so medically knowledgeable as to use an obscure medical term as an abbreviation for her son?”

    and you don’t think that the term Tri-G was in any of the medical paperwork that palin received, that she had to be “medically knowledgeable” to know of that term? please.

    one would have to be incredibly dense to think that it’s purely a coincidence that she named that kid trig.

    and it’s trig with ONE g, despite what commenters say.

    http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/09/08/us/08baby.inline1.ready.html

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  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    and you don’t think that the term Tri-G was in any of the medical paperwork that palin received, that she had to be “medically knowledgeable” to know of that term? please.

    No, I don’t, actually. First, take a look: there were a mere 9,520 google hits for “tri-g”. Should that have been a common term, not an obscure element of medical jargon, there would be more than ten thousand google hits on it.

    Second, what “paperwork?” When a baby with Down’s Syndrome (yes, dear, Down’s Syndrome, not “tri-g”) is born in a hospital, do hospitals routinely give out medical journals to the patients?

    Oh, wait, even if they did… the supermajority of medical journals refer to the condition as Down’s Syndrome or Trisomy 21!

    So your hypothesis is that Palin had to sign off on something saying “I know that my baby has what is commonly known as Down’s Syndrome, but is technically called Trisomy 21, since it is caused by having an extra copy of the 21st chromosome, but a few obscure medical publications will refer to this, once in a blue moon, as Trisomy-g… and if you don’t sign this and read this, you won’t get your baby”? ROFLMAO.

    Finally, in 2007, a bipartisan act (the Prenatally and Postnatally Conditions Awareness Act, IIRC) was passed and signed. A mere few months before Trig Palin was born, the federal government agreed to make grants available to hospitals to educate patients about genetic disorders. Clearly, there wasn’t a lot of paperwork going around in 2007, and in 2008, the first grants went out. Want to see if Wasilla, Alaska, received a federal grant for Down’s Syndrome education?

    Idiot.

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    and you don’t think that the term Tri-G was in any of the medical paperwork that palin received, that she had to be “medically knowledgeable” to know of that term? please.

    No, I don’t, actually. First, take a look: there were a mere 9,520 google hits for “tri-g”. Should that have been a common term, not an obscure element of medical jargon, there would be more than ten thousand google hits on it.

    Second, what “paperwork?” When a baby with Down’s Syndrome (yes, dear, Down’s Syndrome, not “tri-g”) is born in a hospital, do hospitals routinely give out medical journals to the patients?

    Oh, wait, even if they did… the supermajority of medical journals refer to the condition as Down’s Syndrome or Trisomy 21!

    So your hypothesis is that Palin had to sign off on something saying “I know that my baby has what is commonly known as Down’s Syndrome, but is technically called Trisomy 21, since it is caused by having an extra copy of the 21st chromosome, but a few obscure medical publications will refer to this, once in a blue moon, as Trisomy-g… and if you don’t sign this and read this, you won’t get your baby”? ROFLMAO.

    Finally, in 2007, a bipartisan act (the Prenatally and Postnatally Conditions Awareness Act, IIRC) was passed and signed. A mere few months before Trig Palin was born, the federal government agreed to make grants available to hospitals to educate patients about genetic disorders. Clearly, there wasn’t a lot of paperwork going around in 2007, and in 2008, the first grants went out. Want to see if Wasilla, Alaska, received a federal grant for Down’s Syndrome education?

    Idiot.

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